New Edition of Warrior Monk - The First Thriller from Award-Winning Novelist Ray Keating

MANORVILLE, N.Y. - Jan. 31, 2019 - PRLog -- Long Island, NY – Stephen Grant, pastor at St. Mary's Lutheran Church on Long Island, former Navy SEAL and onetime CIA operative, came on the thriller/mystery scene in Warrior Monk: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel. This book by award-winning novelist Ray Keating has received accolades from reviewers and readers, and now the second edition has arrived with a new Author Introduction and Epilogue.

In Warrior Monk, Grant has been living a far different, relatively quiet life as a pastor. However, a shooting at his church, a historic papal proposal, and threats to the pope's life mean that Grant's former and current lives collide. Grant must tap the varied skills learned as a government agent, a theologian and a pastor not only to protect the pope, but also to find his way through a minefield of personal challenges.

In the new Introduction, Keating answers an assortment of questions about the book and writing, while the new Epilogue provides a glimpse of an upcoming Pastor Stephen Grant novel.

The second edition of Warrior Monk comes after the tenth Pastor Stephen Grant adventure, Shifting Sands: A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story, was published in November 2018.

About Keating's Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers and mysteries, one reviewer declared, "Skillful in plot and description, Keating paints three-dimensional and interestingly different locations and crimes in each book. He has a writerly gift for making the action crisp. Keating researches his settings, too."

Paperbacks and Kindle editions of Warrior Monk: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel are available at Amazon.com, and signed books at RayKeatingOnline.com.

In addition, a new edition of A Discussion Guide to Ray Keating's Warrior Monk has been published, which also is available at Amazon.com and signed books at RayKeatingOnline.com.

Keating's other Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers/mysteries – Shifting Sands, Heroes and Villains, Reagan Country, Lionhearts, Wine Into Water, Murderer's Row, The River, An Advent For Religious Liberty, and Root of All Evil?– also have received widespread praise.

Review copies, and author interviews and appearances are available upon request.